Perfect Moment Monday is more about noticing a perfect moment than about creating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between.We gather here once a week to engage in...

I'm trying to muster the courage to let sharp and white-hot-bright things near my eyeball. My journey starts here.Comments closed here, but please speak up there..

Perfect Moment Monday is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between.Once a week we engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. Everyone is...

I'm taking a seat at the Open Adoption Roundtable, where the assignment this session involves these italicized thoughts:[Some say that] adopted persons should be free to initiate relationships with their first families--or not--on their own timetable....

This past week, Roger and I marked the 15th anniversary of our engagement (click all images to magnify).As longtime readers may guess, we are not the traditional type that would have a traditional wedding. Or traditional wedding invitations.And before...

Tessa was distraught, after a Halloween party, for not getting the nod for a sleepover at her aunt's house. The excitement of the kid-oriented haunted house, the disappointment about the sleepover and a sugar high made for a meltdown.I got her into the...